Cuisine and restaurants According to liuxers.com, simple and hearty Maltese cuisine combines the traditions of Italian, Greek, Mauritanian and Spanish gastronomy. The main components of the dishes are seasonal vegetables and fruits, fresh fish and seafood, cereals and olive oil. The menu is dominated by stews and baked dishes: once […]
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Operating year-round, the Holmenkollen ski resort is a very popular place among sports lovers and not only. The place attracts tourists both with tracks, the total length of which is about 500 meters, and with a bewitching view of the city from the top of the world-famous springboard. Numerous competitions […]
The Norwegian capital Oslo, which was called Christiania or Kristiania a few centuries ago, is located in the south-east of Norway. The name Christiania was given to Oslo after King Christian IV rebuilt the city after the fierce and devastating fire in 1624. Only around 1925 this was changed back […]
According to COUNTRYAAH.COM, the Kingdom of Belgium is located in the northwest of Europe and its neighbors are the Netherlands, France, Germany and Luxembourg. Belgium is divided into three regions, the Flemish, Walloon and Brussels Region. In addition, the country is divided into three communities: the French, Flemish and German-speaking […]
According to COUNTRYAAH.COM, England is part of the United Kingdom and is located together with Scotland and Wales on the island of Great Britain. Often when talking about England people mean the United Kingdom or the island of Great Britain. However, this is wrong as England is only part of […]
According to COUNTRYAAH.COM, Italy or officially the Italian Republic is located in the central southern part of Europe and consists for the most part of a boot-shaped peninsula. In addition, a large number of islands belong to the country. The largest of these are Sardinia and Sicily. The capital is […]
According to COUNTRYAAH.COM, Greece or as the country is officially called the Hellenic Republic can be found in Southeastern Europe on the southernmost part of the Balkan Peninsula, but the country does not belong to the Balkan region. Greece consists of a peninsula and about 3,000 smaller islands scattered off […]
According to COUNTRYAAH.COM, the Republic of Montenegro is located in thesoutheastern part of Montenegro on the Balkan Peninsula. Today’s Montenegro arose after the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. After first forming an alliance with Serbia, it decided to continue as an independent country in 2006. However, the history of Montenegro […]
According to COUNTRYAAH.COM, Austria or actually the RepublicAustria is located in the central part of Europe. It is one of the few countries in Europe that does not have any kind of coastline. Austria in its current form originated after the Second World War, but the history of Austria goes […]
According to COUNTRYAAH.COM, Northern Ireland is located in thenortheastern part of the island of Ireland that it shares with the Republic of Ireland. The largest city in the country is the capital Belfast. It is one of the four countries that belong to the United Kingdom. However, it is the […]
According to COUNTRYAAH.COM, Spain is a kingdom in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The history of Spain goes back to prehistoric times. In this period the first people came from Africa to present-day Spain. Remains of the first settlement of Spain can still be found in the Cave of […]
According to COUNTRYAAH.COM, the Czech Republic is a relatively young country that has only officially existed since 1993 when the country separated from Slovakia. The first permanent settlement of this part of Europe was by the Celts who settled here in the first century BC. These were expelled a few […]
Bulgaria is located on the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula, bordering Greece, Macedonia, Romania and Turkey. The varied and beautiful country offers holidaymakers in Europe very good value for money and has both great beaches and excellent ski areas. See ANDYEDUCATION for education in Bulgaria. Capital City Sofia Size 110.994 […]
Metz The Gallo-Roman city of Metz was an important commercial hub, favored by its favorable strategic position, which made defense easy. Remarkable are the remaining remains of medieval ramparts, beautiful vaults and some imposing public buildings; however, the pride of the city is the Cathedral of St. Etienne. Contemporary art […]
Sweden is located between 11° and 24° east longitude and 55° and 69° north latitude. It is washed from the east by the Baltic Sea and its Gulf of Bothnia, from the southwest by the Øresund, Kattegat and Skagerrak straits. The total length of the heavily indented coastline exceeds 7 […]
BODRUM is the most popular resort for tourists from all over Europe and the Turkish elite, who come here to enjoy the splendor of the seascape and the charm of nightlife. The resort is ideal for youth and family holidays, here you can visit numerous art galleries, ceramic workshops, shops […]
“That was magnificent Genoa. This playful diversity of houses, churches and palaces in the thin heavenly air, shining with an incomprehensible blueness, was the only one. N.V. Gogol “Genova la Superba” – magnificent Genoa. This is how the Italians call this majestic port city, the capital of the historical region […]
Serbia (serb. Srbija) Landlocked Balkan state. It borders to the North with Hungary, to the NE with Romania, to the East with Bulgaria, to the South with Macedonia, to the SW with Kosovo (proclaimed independent from the Serbia on February 17, 2008), to the West with Montenegro and Bosnia and […]
State of ‘ Europe north, overlooking the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland. It borders on the E with Russia, on the S with Latvia, while on the other sides it is bathed by the sea. They belong to the Estonia several islands, of which the largest are Saaremaa […]
At the census of 1 December 1930, 4,077,099 residents lived in Switzerland. (present population; the resident was 4,066,400). In 1800 it is estimated that the population of Switzerland rose to 1,670,000 residents, in 1850, the year in which the first census was carried out, it was 2,392,740 residents, the following […]
In anticipation of the 2006 elections, a new candidacy of R. Prodi at the helm of a large center-left coalition (The Union) was being defined as Berlusconi’s antagonist. Prodi’s plan aimed at the gradual constitution of a force, more stable than an electoral aggregate, which would unite the various reformist […]
The tensions on the issues of work and19 March in Bologna by the new Red Brigades, by the jurist M. Biagi, consultant to the Minister of Welfare and involved in defining the technical aspects deriving from the changes to labor regulations. The return of terrorism, limited as it might appear, […]
The Berlusconi government took office in June, with G. Fini as deputy prime minister and Bossi as minister for institutional reforms. Supported by a large majority, the government accentuated its legislative initiative by passing a series of delegating laws: it was a political and operational choice, not a new one, […]
The first years of the new century remained characterized by a clear contrast between the two political camps of center-right and center-left. This systematic conflict, devoid of the possibility of confrontation and meeting between the parties, except for a few rare occasions in foreign policy, remained the political figure of […]
According to sunglassestracker.com, the Patrimonium sancti Petri before the recuperationes corresponded to the Byzantine duchy of Rome, over which the popes began to exercise exclusively the “concrete rights linked to sovereignty” (Toubert, 1987, p. 155), starting from the moment in which, Ravenna in the hands of the Lombards, there was […]
Detached from the kingdom of Italy and united first to the Duchy of Bavaria, then to that of Carinthia, it took its name from the city which, due to its position at the entrance or, if you prefer, at the mouth of the Adige valley, was of great strategic importance. […]
He first of all mentions Apulia, that is, the territory of the continental part of the kingdom of Sicily (including the current regions of Abruzzo, Molise, Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria), distinguishing, with respect to the Apennine ridge that crosses it, its western and Tyrrhenian side from the east and the […]
At the same time, Paolo already seems to have almost given Venice a city, on a few islands in the lagoon. For it he uses the plural Venetiae, which however immediately after, while hinting that it is now this new second sense to prevail, also uses in reference to the […]
The toponym Italy, of Oscan origin, approached from the etymological point of view to Lat. vitulus (‘calf’) and variously interpreted (Rauhut, 1953; Marcato, 1990), initially referred to the southern extremity of Calabria. Already in the classical era, and officially under the empire of Augustus (27 BC14 AD), Italy went on […]
Exhausted the living sources of the epic, poetry, fantasy, sentiment had to find another outlet. In fact, they found it in the many forms of what we conventionally call lyric: which had its splendor in the seventh and sixth centuries. C. With it the primitive lyric-musical manifestations, mentioned above, which […]